Regulation
18 March 2025
Consumers as Innovators and the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Consumer Duty
We address the scope, purpose, and initial implementation from July 2023 of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Duty. ...
Climate Finance
17 March 2025
Navigating Double Materiality in ESG: Practical Steps for Businesses
Introduction to Double Materiality Double materiality emerged as a concept relatively recently, but has been gaining interest as a practical, ...
Climate Finance
28 February 2025
The European Sustainability Reporting Standards and Opportunities for Financial Services
This white paper introduces the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), which underpin the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD); a core ...
Climate Finance
28 February 2025
The EU Green Deal and the Sustainable Finance Framework
This white paper is the first in a set exploring the use of geospatial data in Environmental,Social and Governance (ESG) ...
Regulation
29 January 2025
Navigating Regulatory Risk Trends in 2025: Key Insights from Pinsent Masons
As we step into 2025, the financial services landscape faces a year of transformation, with regulators aiming to balance economic ...
Regulation
29 January 2025
Systems in the Making: the Role of Companies in Implementing Sustainability Policy and Reporting
This paper focuses on the implementation of corporate sustainability, or Environment, Social and Governance, reporting. The introduction from 2023 of ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Promoting Fairness and Exploring Algorithmic Discrimination in Financial Decision Making Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence
In this white paper a comprehensive toolbox is developed, grounded in an ethical “rights toexplanation” framework, deploying state-of-the-art machine learning/artificial ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Fairness and Discrimination in Lending Decisions: Multiple Protected Characteristics Analysis
We build upon the comprehensive toolbox developed in Jain, Bowden and Cummins(2024), extending its applicability to multiple protected characteristics. We ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Enhancing Financial Crime Detection By Implementing End-to-end AI Frameworks
Economic crime, encompassing money laundering, fraud, scams, and various otherillegal financial activities, continues to evolve with the emergence of sophisticated ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Using Automation and AI toCombat Money Laundering
Money laundering, which is the criminal activity of processing criminal proceeds to disguise their origin is one of the gravest ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
ESG Greenwashing And Applications of AI For Measurement
“ESG greenwashing” refers to the strategic communication tactics firms use toselectively disclose their ESG conduct to stakeholders. ESG greenwashing strategy, ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Simplifying Compliance through Explainable Intelligent Automation
We discuss how explainability in AI-systems can deliver transparency and build trusttowards greater adoption of automation to support financial regulation ...